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Ethanol Equivalents

• The alcohol concentration in wine, is a measure of all of the various alcohols present.
  
  
• The alcohol concentration level expressed as % v/v at 20^oC assumes, for convenience, that all alcohols present in wine exist as ethanol (ethyl alcohol), as this is not far from the truth.
  
  
• The unit of alcohol concentration is given then in %v/v as ethanol equivalents at 20^oC in Australia and New Zealand.
  
  
• In countries such as America the temperature of the measurement is 60^oF (15.56^oC).